Sintax and their 93+ games

[taizou]

added! Also I just noticed Harry Potter 2 (a version of the previously dumped "Harry Potter" platformer with different levels) has the ID "ST-09003C".. which doesn't really fit with the regular numbering system at all. oh yeah, and it actually has the Chinese name of Saturn Technology up the side, namely 钍星科技有限公司.
googling that gets one result, a post about Space Baby on Kamming's blog: http://hi.baidu.com/kamming/item/76d1aab12ee62d77254b097d
with a similar ID, which definitely does not match the one in this list.. so I guess they used a different numbering system on some of these "Saturn Technology" releases.

[fcgamer]

Tried to respond to this but it didn't post last time, for some reason.  Maybe I am just going crazy, sometimes it feels like it.

Not sure if there is more than one numbering system or not.  I know 100% for a fact though that Sintax made mistakes in their numbering system.  There are some games which have different numbers on the box and manual, respectively, and there are other times where two games share one number.  Definitely some mistakes, but for the most part, I think the numbers can be used as a fairly good guide.  This is inpart why I have been trying to purchase more Sintax games.  I am trying to get a complete set of them, and although I have 35 or 40 different carts, it frustrates me a bit knowing that there are so many out there that I still can't seem to find.  

[codeman38]

Well, we know that ST-0206004 is Little Taichi now.

Which also means that it was only five games in before Sintax started reusing an engine. Five. (Granted, Donkey Kong 5 was a much more intricate graphical hack than their usual, but still.)

Edit: And something to throw a wrench into the whole "chronological order" thing. Super Robot War X is GT-0210001C. Which means...its sequential ID is earlier...but it came out in a later month than Little Taichi...?

Edit #2: Hm. Maybe the last three digits are still chronological, but the year/month are those of the specific printing? That...sort of makes sense, possibly. I'm almost certain that Super Robot War X is their first game, anyway, as the ROM doesn't have Sintax's typical assortment of tiles left over from previous games....Curiouser and curiouser. Guess what's buried in the Little Taichi ROM? Why, leftovers from Harry Potter! No, not the Super Mario DX play-alike, but the one with the Lemmings music.

Clearly, production order is not necessarily equal to release order.

[taizou]

I think Harry Potter was released by BBD independently of Sintax, though - it probably came out around 2001, before Sintax started releasing GB games, so it wouldn't have been factored into their numbering system (although they might have reprinted it later - they did that with Garou and Metal Slug 2001)

[codeman38]

That actually would make sense. It's clear that they recycled at least part of the Harry Potter engine for Little Taichi (just look at the status bar!), so the tiles would've come along for the ride.

Edit: Yeah, d'oh, I had forgotten that the boot logo in Harry Potter was "BBD" rather than...that "Kwichvu" thing. So looks like this was the first case of BBD reusing one of their pre-Sintax engines for a Sintax game!

[fcgamer]

SKOB also released a (perhaps more) game shared with Sintax.

[taizou]

Yeah, I think a few SKOB games were actually developed by BBD - Fire Emblem, Digimon D3, Pokemon Crystal (the Chikorita one) etc.

[fcgamer]

taizou

Dec 24 2012, 07:50:51 AM

Yeah, I think a few SKOB games were actually developed by BBD - Fire Emblem, Digimon D3, Pokemon Crystal (the Chikorita one) etc.[/quote]Sintax released a version of the Fire Emblem game...it was different from the SKOB version, but just a sprite hack.

[codeman38]

taizou

Dec 24 2012, 07:50:51 AM

Yeah, I think a few SKOB games were actually developed by BBD - Fire Emblem, Digimon D3, Pokemon Crystal (the Chikorita one) etc.[/quote]Final Fantasy X, too. That one's been confirmed by both a flyer and an original box to be a SKOB release.

[JoepVK]

Yaaay More :yay: !......  :|

ST-0509090C = The Incredibles

Theres a vid somewhere, I'd make one too but my cart doesnt work (Tested on GB BOY COLOUR, GBC, GBA SP, GB)
Heres some pictures:
1: Box front
2: Box back
3: Box top
4: Box bottom
5: Inner whatever-they-are-called with sintax on 'em
6: Spine 1
7: Spine 2
8: Cart front
9: Cart back
10: Manual front

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11: Manual page 2 and 3
12: Manual page 4 and 5
13: Manual page 6 and 7
14: Manual back
15: Seal of 'Quality'

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[Pepper-98]

Ah, we've known about that game for a while now (and I did a playthrough of the game, which is probably the video you're thinking of.)  It's a graphic/level order hack of the Pokemon Platinum game (or vice-versa) that Taizou dumped a while back.

[JoepVK]

Yeah, your name sounds familiair so probs.
Ive also got some Li-Cheng games from the same AliExpress seller, Is there a list of Li-Cheng games like this too?

[taizou]

I was working on compiling one at one point.. maybe I'll get back on that.

[JoepVK]

Well, Are these games known? (+Prob the wrong thread :l)

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[taizou]

yeah thats Digimon 3 Crystal, Soul Falchion, not sure (KOF 95 or 96 i think) & Super Fighter 99.